Editing Arthur Jensen (section)

==Early life and education==
Jensen was born August 24, 1923, in [[San Diego]], California, the son of Linda Mary (née Schachtmayer) and Arthur Alfred Jensen, who operated and owned a lumber and building materials company.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K_kZAAAAYAAJ&q=Linda+Mary+Schachtmayer |title=Current biography yearbook |publisher=H.W. Wilson Company |access-date=2012-10-28|isbn=9780824205430 |year=1974 }}</ref> His paternal grandparents were Danish immigrants and his mother was of half-[[History of the Jews in Poland|Polish Jewish]] and half-German descent.<ref>{{cite book |title=Intelligence, race, and genetics: conversations with Arthur R. Jensen |last1=Jensen |first1=Arthur Robert |last2=Miele |first2=Frank |edition=illustrated |year=2002 |publisher=Westview Press |isbn=978-0-8133-4008-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/intelligencerace00jens/page/242 242] |url=https://archive.org/details/intelligencerace00jens/page/242 }}</ref>

As a child, Jensen was interested in [[herpetology]] and classical music, playing clarinet in the [[San Diego Symphony]] orchestra.<ref name=alex-forsythe-key-thinkers-in-individual-difference>{{cite book |last= Forsythe|first= Alex |date= 28 May 2019|title= Key Thinkers in Individual Difference |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=2QWdDwAAQBAJ&q=978-1-138-49415-2&pg=PA143 |location= Oxon |publisher= Routledge |pages = 143–150 |isbn= 978-1-138-49415-2}}</ref>

Jensen received a B.A. in psychology from the [[University of California, Berkeley]] in 1945 and went on to obtain his M.A. in psychology in 1952 from [[San Diego State College]]. He earned his Ph.D. in [[clinical psychology]] from [[Columbia University]] in 1956 under the supervision of [[Percival Symonds]] on the [[thematic apperception test]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OhAkAHA0520.xml;chunk.id=bioghist_1;brand=default |title=Biography of Arthur R. Jensen |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository |publisher=Ohio EAD Task Force |access-date=August 12, 2021}}</ref> From 1956 through 1958, he did postdoctoral research at the [[University of London]], [[Institute of Psychiatry]] with [[Hans Eysenck]].

Upon returning to the United States, he became a researcher and professor at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he focused on individual differences in learning, especially the influences of culture, development, and genetics on intelligence and learning. He received tenure at Berkeley in 1962. He concentrated on the learning difficulties of culturally disadvantaged students.

Jensen had a lifelong interest in classical music and was, early in his life, attracted by the idea of becoming a conductor himself. At 14, he conducted a band that won a nationwide contest held in [[San Francisco]]. Later, he conducted orchestras and attended a seminar given by [[Nikolai Sokoloff]]. Soon after graduating from Berkeley, he moved to [[New York City|New York]], mainly to be near the conductor [[Arturo Toscanini]]. He was also deeply interested in the life and example of [[Gandhi]], producing an unpublished book-length manuscript on his life. During Jensen's period in [[San Diego]] he spent time working as a social worker with the San Diego Department of Public Welfare.